Converge ICT Solutions Inc. sees its subscriber base in Bicol region to nearly double, and to cover up to 45 percent of its entire population with fiber optic network by by yearend.
Dennis Anthony Uy, chief executive officer of Converge, said the company sees subscriber base to grow by nearly 80 percent this year.
“The solid increase in our customer base in Region V is hinged on our entry into Masbate, and our deeper presence in the provinces of Albay, Camarines Norte, Camarines Sur, and Sorsogon.”
Converge has landed its pure fiber domestic subsea backbone in three points in Bicol – Pasacao in Camarines Sur and in Masbate City, and Milagros in Masbate. These are key landing points in Southern Luzon, which completes the redundancy loop that starts in San Juan, Batangas and passes through Roxas – Mindoro, Boracay, Roxas- Iloilo and ends in Milagros, Masbate.
These loops provide an alternate route for internet traffic to go through in the case of an outage or failure, caused by a natural disaster, on the primary route of the subsea cables.
This network safeguard enhances the overall network redundancy of Converge.
This development also marks the entry of Converge into the Masbate province, tapping another unserved market to add to its customer base.
“We are the only player in this southern Luzon region with a pure, end-to-end fiber network, and we are aggressively expanding as we continue laying down our domestic fiber backbone interconnecting the Philippine islands and fortifying our entire network,” Uy said.
Converge has opened business centers in the cities of Naga, Daet, Iriga and Legazpi, and is slated to complete its fifth business center in Sorsogon by year-end.
